Srinagar, Feb 2: Having defied convention, Kashmir's first all-girls rock band is facing a challenge of online threats and abuses from conservative sections of the society.The teenaged girls who came to limelight in late December
New Delhi, Feb 2: President Pranab Mukherjee, inaugurating the annual Surajkund Crafts Mela Saturday, hoped the success of the fair would spur other states to organise similar ones.In his inaugural address at the 27th edition
Bangalore, Feb 2: Karnataka government has constituted a high-level committee to look into the affairs of higher educational institutions, run by religious and linguistic minorities, following complaints from the public that some of them have
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, Feb 2 : Terming the reported circulation of 500-rupee note bearing "Free Tibet" slogan in McLeodganj area as "unfortunate", the Tibetan government-in-exile on Friday said it could be the work of certain
Shimla, Feb 2 :Amending the admission policy for post graduate degree/diploma courses in all government and private medical and dental colleges of the state, the Himachal Pradesh government on Friday sliced the quota for General
New Delhi, Feb 2 :Amid clamour for lowering the age ceiling for juveniles, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid seems to favour the existing limit noting one should not react by looking at the issue in
New Delhi, Feb 2: China wants India to put behind the 1962 war as an "unfortunate" thing of the past and that the two countries should strengthen their military ties including formalising a border management
New Delhi, Feb 1: The first of the 75 Swiss Pilatus trainer aircraft procured by the IAF under a Rs 2,800 crore deal to train its rookie pilots today landed at Jamnagar in Gujarat.The fleet
New Delhi, Feb 1: Rape that leads to death of the victim or leaving her in a vegetative state can now attract death penalty under an ordinance cleared by the Union Cabinet tonight in a
Noida, Feb 1: A 2-year-old girl was killed and 30 persons were injured in a massive pile-up of 20 vehicles on Yamuna Expressway near Bhaipur in Jewar area, 24 km from Greater Noida, in dense
New Delhi, Feb 1: No Indian nationals have been injured in the blast at the entrance of the US Embassy in the Turkish capital today and Indian Ambassador Sushmita Ganguly in Ankara was in touch
New Delhi, Feb 1: After heavy fog Friday morning that disrupted air and rail traffic severely, the skies remained clear and sunny through the day. The Met office has forecast similar conditions Saturday as well.According
Kolkata, Feb 1: Taking the West Bengal government head on, author Salman Rushdie Friday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered police to block his arrival to Kolkata and that organisers of the literary festival were
Kolkata, Feb 1: Shanu Lahiri, a well known painter of Bengal School, died after a brief illness at a private hospital here today, family sources said. She was 85.Born in an artistically inclined family, Lahiri
Thane, Feb 1: A Palghar court has closed the case against the two girls - Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Srinivasan - who were arrested for posting a comment on Facebook on the bandh after the
New Delhi, Feb 1: The Supreme Court today stayed the arrest of eminent scholar and sociologist Ashis Nandy for making remarks alleged to be anti-Dalit at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF).Though the bench stayed his
Lalgarh (WB), Feb 1: Maoists are regrouping in West Bengal's Jangalmahal area, where peace prevailed for more than a year after their leader Kishenji was killed and several other top functionaries were arrested, according to
New Delhi, Feb 1: Her parents called her "bitiya," or little daughter. She was her family's biggest hope. In a country where women are routinely pushed into subservience, this 23-year-old who dreamed of becoming a
New Delhi, Feb 1: Flight operations came to a standstill at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here today due to dense fog which reduced visibility to below 50 metres and affected the schedule of over
Varanasi, Feb 1: Two women, Sandhya Singh and Seong, a Korean national, were hit by stones pelted by youths at an AC coach near Ghazipur station in UP on Thursday. The youths were trying to
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